She said: what is history?And he said: history is an angel being blown backwards into the futureHe said: history is a pile of debrisAnd the angel wants to go back and fix thingsTo repair the things that have been brokenBut there is a storm blowing from paradiseAnd the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the futureAnd this storm, this storm is called progress

Laurie Anderson – excerpt from The Dream Before. 1989.

Claire Correia is a multi-media artist who works with both two and three-dimensional media including soft glass, in combination with small scale metal-working, paper engineering, and use of wood and other materials. Her installations, relief wall pieces and kinetic sculptures express ideas about energy, environment, and the Earth as a living entity. Claire also is a mother, paints, maintains a rigorous sketchbook practice, is a design educator in the School of Graphic Design at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, and is a pastry cook at the Dundas Park Kitchen in Toronto, Canada.

The Angel of History, 2017Mixed Mediadimensions variable

The Akin Vitrine Gallery is located at the Clock Factory Building at 1485 Dupont Street (entrance on Campbell Avenue). Find Akin Studio 215 on the second floor and follow the sign into the hallway around the corner.

The building is open from 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, or to arrange a viewing outside of those hours please contact the artist: clairelcorreia@yahoo.com

Akin Collective + Akin Projects are excited to present the Vitrine Gallery, a valued addition to our Dupont studios. This miniature gallery will feature the diverse talent of our members with a new installation each month.